Silver Lining Safety - Safety Bytes

People often think that if injured employees simply paid more attention, they wouldn’t have been injured. But how easy is it to pay more attention? And if you had more attention to pay, would you be paying attention to the right thing? This podcast will attempt to keep your attention on this captivating topic.

Have you ever wondered if OSHA can recommend that you, as an employer, go to jail? The simple answer is yes, OSHA can recommend jail time. This podcast will cover what’s required for OSHA to send an employer to jail.

On April 16, OSHA announced they would use discretion in their inspection and citation process. This podcast will review what this means for employers.

Must employees who have had COVID-19 be recorded on your OSHA 300 Log? This podcast will hopefully clear up any confusion.

Safety audits are a crucial component of a safety program. A well-formed and conducted audit helps you identify weaknesses in your safety practices so that you may take corrective actions to prevent employee injury or ensure compliance. A safety program that focuses on audits, however, will not achieve a safe workplace. This podcast will review common weaknesses with audits and how to overcome them.

This podcast will discuss consensus standards, how they are developed and why some of them are called ANSI standards even though ANSI doesn’t write consensus standards.

Employees who are working at home, either routinely or because of the coronavirus pandemic, are covered under workers’ compensation if they are injured in the course of their work activities.  This podcast will discuss how employers can keep employees safe while working at home.

So, you see a safety product is listed as OSHA approved. What does this mean? What about OSHA endorsed? In this podcast I’ll discuss these monikers.

Do you have a safety incentive program? Is it working? Are you thinking about creating a safety incentive program and want to know how to make it most effective? This podcast will discuss safety incentive programs and what makes them work best to improve workplace safety.

Does workers’ compensation cover employees if they become ill due to novel coronavirus-19 (covid 19)?  This can be a challenging question to answer. Listen to this podcast for a general overview of how workers’ compensation applies to this unique hazard.